Description
There is a calm stillness in this mixed media painting, despite its breezy title, by experimental South African artist Lin Kerr, who now lives and works in Oxfordshire.
Series: Transience and stillness
Morning Breeze is a part of this series.
Canvases are ripped and repaired, textured and gessoed. It is important to me that the ground on which I paint has a history. I have drawn on the Japanese concept of Sashiko and Borro – visible mending which enhances the garment/fabric. This adds patina and history while creating close surface interest and refers to the transience of the subject. It also honours the long history of women weaving and maintaining garments; although that is not a central theme.
The subject in ‘Transience and Stillness’ is about the dappling and reflection of light in a quiet morning/evening interior. When one is alone in a room and the light illuminates the walls through a screen of foliage or gauze, you inhabit a world of quiet promise and meditation.